Krauthammer: No Allies, Only Alliances...

Another case study against the term allies or the perception that we or any other nation has them. Each nation is out for it's own agenda and that is how it has always been. All the myopic, nostalgic talk about "Allies" and how we are losing them based upon the Iraq war is naive and nonsense.

Et tu, Putin?
Russian prez, ripe with Cold War nostalgia,slams U.S. in attempt to recapture faded glory
By Charles Krauthammer

Vladimir Putin - Russia's president, although the more accurate title would be godfather - made headlines last week with a speech in Munich that set a new standard in anti-Americanism. He charged the U.S. with the "hyper-use of force," "disdain for the basic principles of international law" and having "overstepped its national borders in ... the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations." He even blamed the spread of weapons of mass destruction, which the U.S. has been combating with few allies and against constant Russian resistance, on American "dominance" that "inevitably encourages" other countries to defensively acquire them.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/497854p-419639c.html